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I have a western digital 250GB hard drive, I'm using the ATA card and I updated the bios on my brand new L7VMM2 motherboard. I tryed to download a driver off of the western digital website but the install directions they gave me are bogus. I then tryed to load the driver on a floppy and went into device manager to update the hard drive driver, but it said it couldn't find it. Please help

-Kris
 
Is your bios showing 250 GB?
Kris Clark said:
I have a western digital 250GB hard drive, I'm using the ATA card and I
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updated the bios on my brand new L7VMM2 motherboard. I tryed to download a
driver off of the western digital website but the install directions they
gave me are bogus. I then tryed to load the driver on a floppy and went
into device manager to update the hard drive driver, but it said it couldn't
find it. Please help.
 
Do you have XP SP1 installed? If so, did you enable 48-bit LBA for large
drives over 127 GB?

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Kris Clark said:
I have a western digital 250GB hard drive, I'm using the ATA card and I
Click to expand...
updated the bios on my brand new L7VMM2 motherboard. I tryed to download a
driver off of the western digital website but the install directions they
gave me are bogus. I then tryed to load the driver on a floppy and went
into device manager to update the hard drive driver, but it said it couldn't
find it. Please help.
 
Put both HD's on the same controller. Break the partion on the "NEW" drive. It should like you create the for 232. Then pick it bacr on the other controller and windows will see as 232. Format Done.



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My BIOS's post's 232GB and SP1 is installed, 48-Bit
LBA??? How do I do that
 
Kris Clark said:
I have a western digital 250GB hard drive, I'm using the ATA card
Click to expand...
and I updated the bios on my brand new L7VMM2 motherboard. I tryed to
download a driver off of the western digital website but the install
directions they gave me are bogus. I then tryed to load the driver on
a floppy and went into device manager to update the hard drive driver,
but it said it couldn't find it. Please help.
-Kris
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You need the driver for the ATA card, plus the 48 bit LBA patch for
WXP which is included in SP1.
 
If you have an unzip program set it to unzip items in their "own folders" or
"same directory and create subfolders" or when unzipping it will overwrite
what you need to install. Each OS should have it's own folder after
unzipping. You will need to point to that folder and driver to update them.
The WD instructions are not bogus.

The ATA card has it's own BIOS which is separate from the motherboard and
will appear at bootup in a separate screen. You may need to update this,
also. If the card came from WD check their download site. Be careful, BIOS
updates, when unnecessary, can cause more harm than good. Follow their
directions carefully.

You need the WXP update for large drives if you are not running SP1. I have
the ATA card that came with the WD 160GB hard drive and had no problems with
it but since my motherboard and system update supports large hard drives, I
do not use it.


Kris Clark said:
I have a western digital 250GB hard drive, I'm using the ATA card and I
Click to expand...
updated the bios on my brand new L7VMM2 motherboard. I tryed to download a
driver off of the western digital website but the install directions they
gave me are bogus. I then tryed to load the driver on a floppy and went
into device manager to update the hard drive driver, but it said it couldn't
find it. Please help.
 
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